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Granted Patent B2
US 12,464,433 · App. 17/871,863 · Granted Nov 4, 2025

Information forwarding via sidelink relay

Inventors: Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, CA); Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W40/22H04W4/90H04W60/06H04W68/005H04W88/04
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Patent No.
US 12,464,433
App. No.
17/871,863
Granted
Nov 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for information forwarding via sidelink relays in wireless networks.

Claims (44)

1 . One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause processing circuitry to:

receive, from a remote user equipment (UE), a message that includes an interest list of one or more system information blocks (SIBs) for which updates are requested, wherein the interest list corresponds to a delta request that includes changes to one or more previous requests;

obtain a SIB of the one or more SIBs from a base station; and

output the SIB for transmission to the remote UE.

2 . The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the interest list is a first interest list and the computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processing circuitry to:

add, to a second interest list of SIBs stored at a relay UE, the one or more SIBs from the first interest list; and

monitor updates to the second list of SIBs.

3 . The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processing circuitry to:

receive a de-registration message from the remote UE; and

cease forwarding SIBs of the interest list based on the de-registration message.

4 . The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processing circuitry to:

determine the SIB has been updated; and

output the SIB for transmission to the remote UE based on the determination that the SIB has been updated.

5 . The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 4 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processing circuitry to:

receive, in downlink control information (DCI), a system information (SI) modification indication; and

determine the SIB has been updated based on the SI modification indication.

6 . The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the message is received from the remote UE when the remote UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle or inactive mode.

7 . An apparatus comprising:

processing circuitry to:

identify a plurality of system information blocks (SIBs) for which requests have not been previously sent to a relay UE; and

generate a message, to be transmitted to the relay UE, to include a list of the plurality of SIBs for which updates are requested; and

interface circuitry coupled with the processing circuitry to enable communication.

8 . The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to:

output the message for transmission to the relay UE.

9 . The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processing circuitry is to output the message for transmission to the relay UE while in a radio resource control (RRC) idle or inactive state.

10 . The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to:

generate a de-registration message to be sent to the relay UE to release the request for the SIB.

11 . A method comprising:

receiving, from a remote user equipment (UE), a message that includes an interest list of one or more system information blocks (SIBs) for which updates are requested;

receiving a SIB of the one or more SIBs from a base station;

forwarding the SIB to the remote UE;

receiving a de-registration message from the remote UE; and

ceasing forwarding SIBs of the interest list based on the de-registration message.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the message includes an interest list of one or more SIBs, including the SIB, for which the remote UE requests updates.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the interest list is a first interest list and the method further comprises:

adding, to a second interest list of SIBs stored at a relay UE, the one or more SIBs from the first interest list; and

monitoring updates to the second interest list of SIBs.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the first interest list corresponds to a delta request that includes changes to one or more previous requests.

15 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

determining the SIB has been updated; and

transmitting the SIB to the remote UE based on determining that the SIB has been updated.

16 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

receiving, in downlink control information (DCI), a system information (SI) modification indication; and

determining the SIB has been updated based on the SI modification indication.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 4, 2022
From: WU, ZHIBIN; GURUMOORTHY, SETHURAMAN
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 060987/0099 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63248427 · Sep 24, 2021
Related Publication 20230101557A1 · Mar 30, 2023
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